Romepunk

[samildanach]

The Antikythera mechanism has been in the news recently, having been studied, reconstructed, and finally understood as a work of engineering 1700 years ahead of its time.

I hadn't consciously remembered Heron of Alexandria, but his Formula is part of the high school geometry canon.

This is a neat bit of alternate history speculating on what might

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[quaryn_dk]

I'll be even more impressed if they figure out how the Claw of Archimedes worked; I saw an ancient engineering special that didn't manage to work it out.